The Palladian-A step beyond

@halcro : I have just taken the Mercedes F1 car out on the track and it is fast and beautifully balanced. I have never experienced anything like it.

bluewolf: I have had exactly the same experience with the Mercedes F1, set up as per their proprietary MERC-DIN alignment.

Black threatening clouds move in and block the sun

Flash, flash, followed by lightening and thunder and the sound of air evacuating balloons

@rauliruegas : the Mercedes F1 cannot be good. I know that without driving it or knowing anything about it because I don’t like the designer and I don’t like the cars he use to like before he designed the Mercedes F1. And bluewolf cannot judge good performance because I read a review of a motorbike he didn’t like and I think it is great, and he likes exactly what the F1 designer likes as he owns some of the cars the F1 designer use to like. So the Mercedes F1 cannot be any good.

@fleib : I have never used MERC-DIN but I have used a simulator that does not take into account the geometry behind MERC-DIN and I can declare that MERC-DIN is crap.

Intermission!

The suffix ''DIN'' by UNI-DIN refer to (German Industrial Standard)

which assume 57,5 mm as inner groove limit. Whatever the distance

to the spindle this part of the record is much more difficult to trace then the other radiuses. Because of customers complaints about this fact manufacturers moved this distance to 62 mm. Depending on one's LP collection one will own diffrent ''distance''

 to the spindle by different production years, etc. As I understand Dertonarm's intention he wanted to improve (stylus) tracing in this part of the record radius. Alas my mathematical skills ar similirar to those of bluewolf with whom I obviousy have much in common.  So I have no intention to mess with the involved geometry.

Bluewolf,

I'm being unfriendly? Anyone who doesn't completely agree with you is subject to hostile characterizations. Like your reference to your personal cantilever in your mini review, it seems as if you're easily excitable.

Your analogy is inconsistent with my remarks.  Using similar logic, do you think the cartridge would sound bad using a conventional alignment?

I'm telling you flat out, the post script I talked about previously, is BS.  Saying the cart can not be evaluated without the alignment, is nonsense.

Regards,

Dear Fleib, Your strategy is not to react to the questions asked but

to persist on  your theoretical assumptions.

You just stated: ''Saying the cart can not be evaluated without the

alignment, is nonsense.'' How about evaluation of any cart without any experience with the cart in question? This is bluewolf's argument which you deed not address. The reason is obvious.